Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-12-23
DAKOTA COMBINATIONS.

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zero Wednesday night.
The next grand lodge of Good Temp
lars will meet In Huron in June.
Tuesdays storm at Watertown Was
very severe. All trains we're delayed.
Mrs. Ben Davis, living near Glendale,
died Tuesday of cancer OF the stomach.
Rev. r. O. Walton, of Hlghmofe, is
recuperating fast from h%is..nervous pros
t~ration.
A lodge OF the Daughters OF Rebecca
will Don be organized by Huron Odd
Fellows.
Jack Ksefe, the Philadelphia heavy
weight, has arranged to fight smith. of
Omaha, ia Aberdeen in . few days.
The National hotel at Aighnore wss
destroyed by fire Monday night. Loss
about $4,000; insurance apoutSs,00 0
Charles Peterson. of Valley City, wss
perhaps fatally Injured by being run
over by sied load of hogs in . Gull
river lumber camp Tuesday.
j. n. Bailey, jr. hiss sold his entire
interest in the south Dakota pepitentiary
labor contract to the Drake polishing
works company, OF Sioux Fslle.
Huron saloon men are arranging TO
close their places of business on Jan. let.
All but three OF the seven saloon keepers
Will remain and engage in other bust
ness.
The packing house at Hn.en Is
good b~nsinsss. A large number OF hogs
have been brought in from counties
west and north and several car loads
from the south.
Il, W. Hathaway. aged 20, In Jail at
M,nnewaukan upon charge of raping.
Nellie Cole, aged s years, made an I'M
successful attempt to commit suicide by
hanging on Sunday.
The union meetings under the leader
ship of Henry q. Smead, OF Mime
-apolis, are still in progress at Huron.
They have been running for nearly
three weeks and are doing great good.
The south Dakota. teachers assacia-
tion met ct Huron Wednesday evening.
Mayor FL. r. Rice delivered the address
of welcome, with response by E. A.
Dye, superintendent of public lnstYuc-
tion.,
Jas, Chadwick, of Hecla, Brown coun-S
ty, was found dead In bed Wednesday
afternoon. 1t is supposed that he was
frozen to death. He was a farmer, SO
years old, and lived q mile from town.
He was unmarried.
The grand jury at Fargo has thus far
returned thirty-ive indictments, many
being in connection with the alleged
illegal sale OF liquors. There are several.
bills found for larceny and burglary.
Some sensational indictments are K
pected.
Delegate Clifford presented in tho
house Tuesday the petition of the late
convention OF soldiers and sailors at
W~oonsocket, praying fer q Law pxovid-
ing shat all pensions shall date from the
beginning Of the disability for which
they are allowed.
Work at the Huron cosl shaft is pro-
crossing nicely. The force Of workmen
is divided into three shifts, each work
ing eight hours, thus working through
the entire twenty-four hours without
Interruption. They are down nearly
forty feet. A large steam engine is used
to hoist the dirt from fine shaft.
Judge Mcdonnell has granted q stay
Of proceedings in the murder trial of
Thomas Facey, who was tried at Neche
for the murder Of his son., ard against
whom the jury Brought q verdict Of
murder in the first degree and suggested
Imprisonment IN the territorial prison at
hard labor for life. The argument for .
new trial will take place Jan. %.
Centreville correspondence Sioux City
Journal; The statement made by the
Ysnkton correspondents in yesterdays
Journal that more hay is shipped from
Yankton than any other point in Dako-
ia. "riles as all up,n as it were, for il
that is the case 1t is because Yankton
gets more empty cars than this point.
We have the hay. We also have two
large steam presses and six hosse!s power
presses constantly running. Gan Yank-
ton bsst it?